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Everyone from the Fed bank of San Francisco to Kiplinger’s is saying that we may have a “jobless recovery”. The meaning of the phrase jobless recovery itself is simple: A jobless recovery or jobless growth is a phrase used by … Continue reading →

Leading PhD economist Dean Baker minces no words in slamming the bailouts, the “bad bank” proposal, and the mainstream media’s dishonest reporting on the financial crisis. As Baker says in a new article: Mr. Geithner wants to use taxpayer dollars … Continue reading →

Today is Bill of Rights Day in America. Happy Bill of Rights Day! This post explains the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights – the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution – and provides a scorecard on … Continue reading →

To paraphrase Mark Twain, everyone complains about inequality, but nobody does anything about it. What they do is to use “inequality” as a takeoff point to project their own views on how to make society more prosperous and at the … Continue reading →

By Chris Hedges President Barack Obama is joined by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton after speaking to delegates during the third-day session of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 27, 2016. (AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster) Thomas … Continue reading →

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ISSUES Vol. L No. 3 September 2016DOI 10.1080/00213624.2016.1210384 Dirk Bezemer and Michael Hudson Dirk Bezemer is a professor of economics at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Michael Hudson is a distinguished research professor of economics at … Continue reading →

By Chris Hedges Government leaders in Poland are promoting a neofascist ideology. (Wikipedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0) WARSAW, Poland—Jaroslaw Kurski and Piotr Stasinski embody the hope that once was Poland. They struggled against the Communist regime for years in … Continue reading →

This post explains the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights – the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution – and provides a scorecard on the extent of the loss of each right. Painting by Anthony Freda: www.AnthonyFreda.com … Continue reading →

Submitted by Mike Krieger, Liberty Blitzkrieg. Wait a minute, this wasn’t supposed to happen… From Business Insider: Remember back in December when we highlighted that one of the responses to central banks’ introduction of negative interest rates might actually be a raising … Continue reading →

Eric Zuesse We’ll start with a typical example of libertarians’ big misconception: Here was the libertarian white Texan Alex Jones, in a riff for the racist white populist billionaire Republican U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump, the day after Trump had declined to … Continue reading →

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating … Continue reading →

A Nobel prize winning economist, former chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank, and chairman of the President’s council of economic advisers (Joseph Stiglitz) says that the International Monetary Fund and World Bank loan money to third … Continue reading →

Why Libertarians Should be Thoroughly Anti-War The anti-war movement desperately needs libertarian leadership. And the libertarian movement urgently needs to be strongly anti-war. So in this essay I will offer some chief reasons for every libertarian to be 100% non-interventionist … Continue reading →

Sure, last year was the first pre-election year stock market loss since the Great Depression. And admittedly, this week was the worst opening week of any year … EVER. But that’s not the big news. The big news is that … Continue reading →

There’s a headline for you. Yet the terms come from a Yahoo News report, which seems to be fairly well buried, as it only has one comment. And, crucially, the report makes no mention whatsoever of the US support that … Continue reading →

The Source of the ‘New Cold War’: The Basic Disagreement Between Obama and Putin Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic–culture.org INTRODUCTION The basic disagreement between U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the source of the economic … Continue reading →

Painting by Anthony Freda: www.AnthonyFreda.com The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave The Land of the Fleeced and the Home of the Slave This post explains the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights – the … Continue reading →

Eric Zuesse I state here why I have come to support Bernie Sanders for President: Whereas Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — the modern Democratic Establishment — have been so conservative they might as well have called themselves … Continue reading →

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